CLAS-240 Athletic Infrastructure

City/town plan: Public buildings; of Pompeii

City/town plan: Republican buildings; of Pompeii (Republican period)

Palaestra plan of Pompeii (Imperial period)

View of site of Pompeii: Palaestra

View of site of Pompeii: Palaestra

“Palestra,” view of site of Pompeii

“Palestra,” view of site of Pompeii

“Palestra,” view of site of Pompeii

“Palestra,” view of site of Pompeii

“Palestra,” view of site of Pompeii

“Small Palestra,” view of site of Pompeii

Relief sculpture: Horserace frieze plaque; from Poggio Civitate (Murlo), Etruria

Statue sculpture: Boy jockey on horseback; from Cape Artemesion, made of bronze (Hellenistic period, dated to 3rd or 2nd c. BC (?); now at ANM 15177)

Relief sculpture: Young horsemen frieze (W); from Acropolis, Athens (Classical period, dated to 447-438 BC; now at BM, London)

Drawing Reconstruction of statue sculpture: Charioteer group; from Delphi, made of bronze (Archaic period)

“Charioteer,” in-the-round sculpture, from Delphi, made of bronze (Classical period, dated to 478-474 BC)

“Charioteer,” in-the-round sculpture: back of head; from Delphi, made of bronze (dated to 478-474 BC)

“Charioteer,” in-the-round sculpture, from Delphi, made of bronze (Classical period, dated to 5th c. BC; now at Delphi Museum)

Nobility

Muse, hear me, and beside Deinomenes sing loud praises for the reward of the four-horse chariot. The joy of his father’s victory is not alien to him.

Pindar Pythian 1

Today you must stand beside a beloved man, Muse, the king of Cyrene with its fine horses, so that while Arcesilas celebrates his triumph you may swell the fair wind of song that is due to the children of Leto and to Pytho

Pindar Pythian 4

“Monte Leone Chariot,” object, from Monteleone, Umbria, made of bronze, ivory & wood (Archaic period, dated to ca. 530 BC; now at MMA, NYC)

“Monte Leone Chariot,” object, from Monteleone, Umbria, made of bronze, wood & ivory (Archaic period, dated to ca. 530 BC; now at MMA, NYC)

“Monte Leone Chariot,” object, from Monteleone, Umbria, made of bronze, ivory & wood (Archaic period, dated to ca. 530 BC; now at MMA, NYC)

“Monte Leone Chariot,” object, from Monteleone, Umbria, made of ivory, wood & bronze (Archaic period, dated to ca. 530 BC; now at MMA, NYC)

“Monte Leone Chariot,” object, from Monteleone, Umbria, made of wood, bronze & ivory (Archaic period, dated to ca. 530 BC; now at MMA, NYC)

“Monte Leone Chariot,” relief sculpture, from Monteleone, Umbria, made of bronze (Archaic period) (now at MMA, NYC)

Relief sculpture: Horse races in the Circus Maximus; from Ostia, made of marble (Imperial period)

Stadium architecture, from Athens (Modern period)

Stadium architecture, from Olympia

“Olympic Stadium,” stadium architecture, from Olympia (dated to c. 4th c. BC)

Stadium view of site of Olympia: Entrance to Olympic Stadium; made of stone (Hellenistic period)

Stadium view of site of Delphi: stadium

Stadium view of site of Delphi: Stadium

Stadium architecture, from Delphi

City/town view of site of Rhodes: Hellenistic sanctuary; stadium 660 ft

Stadium architecture, from Epidaurus

Stadium view of site of Delphi: From Mt. Parnassus (Roman period)

City/town map of Rome (Republican period)

“Circus Maximus,” stadium architecture, from Rome (Modern period)

“Circus Maximus,” stadium architecture, from Rome (Modern period)

3-D Model Reconstruction of “Circus Maximus,” stadium architecture, from Rome (Imperial period)

Relief sculpture: Horse races in the Circus Maximus; from Ostia, made of marble (Imperial period)

3-D Model Reconstruction of “Stadium of Domitian,” stadium architecture, from Rome (Flavian period)

City/town map of Rome (Constantinian period)

Aerial view of site of Piazza Navona, Rome (Modern period)

Piazza Navona

Map of Constantinople

Opus sectile: Consul as charioteer among circus factions; from Basilica of Junius Bassus, Rome, made of glass, marble & stone (Imperial period, dated to AD 330-50; now at Palazzo Vecchio, Florence)